Batik Trip

Hey everyone!!
I'm finally back from the Batik trip.. We started our day by gathering at Student Life Centre around 8.30am.. We took a bus and arrived at Jadi Batek Gallery around 9 something I think? O.O .

 

Upon arrival, we were directed to the batik painting area. Before we started doing anything, the staffs there gave us a brief demonstration on the steps on how to do Batik. The instructions were given very clearly by the staffs. We stationed ourselves and I stood next to my team member,Kim.

  

 

Throughout the whole process, we have helped one another with our Batik artwork. The part where we had to use wax to draw was the most difficult part of the Batik process. It required alot of patience and steady hands !. LOLS..my hands were really shaky holding the wax pen * forgot the name of it in malay..whooops xP* .My lines were not really consistent and I had to seek help from the Batik instructors..tehehehe XP...The painting process is next after drawing. I really enjoyed this part as I get to mix and match colours! :). It was quite frustrating at first cause my paint overflowed into the cloth due to my lines being too fine.. :( ..nawhh..my painting was rather destroyed but I just continued painting..Kim finished her painting earlier and decided to lend me a helping hand..big thanks to her! XD

 PICTURES TAKEN DURING THE BATIK TRIP 

 

-Kim sketching on the cloth-

 PAINTING TIME!!

OUR FINAL OUTCOME!

 

Kim's artwork

My artwork

 OTHERS

We ended at around 12.30pm and I waited for my brother to pick me up straight from the Batik centre. I am really really really sorry to Ms Lisa and some of my classmates cause they had to wait for me. My brother was stuck in traffic and got lost on the way here. They waited 1hour+ for me and I felt really guilty for that. SO SORRRRRRRRRYYY!!! .Anyways, everything went well in the end and I really enjoyed myself during this trip :) . Can't wait to see the final outcome next Tuesday when they deliver our artwork to Taylor's ^^.

Changes

A lot of things have been happening lately in our group... we've been facing tons of problems and miscommunication.. David hasn't been cooperating well with us in a group ..It has always been me and Kim who have been discussing about our Noir Film...hmmm....during class today...Kim told Mr Charles about our situation and he told us to just continue on working together without David. .Wow..from 3 members to 2 now...It's definitely going to be a big struggle for us.. most groups have 4-5 people...yet our group has only 2??!!.. haihh...tough life...

Anyways, when class was over.. Me and Kim decided to work on our Noir Film storyline again. We went to the Admin Office area and decided to discuss around there :) .To be honest, we were quite stuck for the first 1hour trying to come up with the story...I think we were just too tired at that moment..Later on..ideas starting flowing out of our brains and we managed to come up with part of the story line ...

 Here's a brief description on what we wrote

So our cult is still about the teddy bear. In our Noir Film, we show two different life of the society. One of it is the King ( royal family ) and the other one is an ordinary family ( Girl and her mum ). 

KING'S SIDE

* King has a better life compared to his little brother (CL)

* King always gets all the attention from the mother

*Death of the parents

*One of them have to takeover the role as King of the country 

*Election day

*High authorities people only can vote

*King won over his little brother (CL)

*Crown ceremony

*King feels like he should do something for the society

*King gives speech

*Teddy bear for * outstanding performance kids* 

 *Feels satisfied for doing something good*

*Went to bed...*lights off* 

GIRL'S SIDE 

* Girl living with her mother

* Always get treated well by her mother

* Having dinner together

* Shows her mother the bear that was given from the King

*Mother feels proud that her child was selected as one of the *outstanding performance kids*

*Mother kiss her goodnight...went to bed...*lights off*

 

Batik Sketches

After getting our theme approved by Ms Lisa,

We started working on our design and composition for the Batik project

Here is our sketches :)

-This is my sketch done on an A4 size paper -

After my sketch was approved by Ms Lisa, I started drawing it on an A3 size paper

 

-Kim's Sketch-

 Well, we had some issues during our group discussions.. Somehow, we couldn't get along together well.. Hmm.. David was suppose to handover his sketch to me 2 days before the Batik Trip..However, he mentioned that couldn't make it for the trip..which means my team is left with 2 members ( me and Kim). Ms Lisa just told us to continue on working with what we have...sighh...

Batik References

 Some references that I did related to our theme "Under The Sea"

Batik!! XD

Hey everyone,
as mentioned in the picture..class was canceled on the (14/11/2013). Ms Lisa gave us our new assignment which will be "BATIK"!!..I was so excited when I heard about this XD. It has been awhile since I've done Batik. ( 9 years ago to be exact ). Anyways, we were instructed to form groups of 4-5 people and come up with some themes and sketches for Ms Lisa to choose. To be honest, I really don't like group assignments.. It's rather difficult for me finding group members as most of my course mates tend to stick to their "cliques". Luck was definitely not on our side when Me and Kim tried searching for group members. In the end, we managed to form a group which consist of 3 members only ( Me,Kim,David ) . I was quite mad at first as there was only suppose to be 2 groups of 5..but It turned out to be 3 groups of 5 in the end.. The problem was that no one was willing to leave their groups..and so...we're stuck with just 3 of us in a team..sighhh...so yahh..we came up with 4 themes for Ms Lisa to check on..

1) 3 Parts Animal 

2) Under The Sea

3) Animal Prints

4) Cartoon characters in Japanese Costumes

 

 Ms Lisa decided to choose "Under The Sea" as our theme :)

Here was her feedback given in Facebook :  
good ideas...please develop the under the sea theme, get the subject mater and compositions right and figure out color schemes for this Thursday..

What's Your Square Exhibition

We finally had our official exhibition for our What's Your Square work at the CODA Gallery !! XD

      For this exhibition, not only our batch artworks are displayed, but also our seniors and juniors as well :)

On the first day of the exhibition ( 11/11/2013 ),We had to set up all our artworks in the gallery. Ms Lisa also finalized our gallery shifts :) . I was on duty with Nick,Nicholas,Kim, Lok Yen and David  for the 10-12pm slot on Friday ( 15/11/2013). Our shift was rather boring as there weren't many people coming to visit the gallery ( since it's the last day of the exhibition ). But we still managed to do a good job explaining about our artwork to some of the visitors :) .

Here are some pictures taken at the Coda Gallery :)

 

 -Picture of me with my artwork-

*tehehehe..too shy to show my face xP *

 Paper cut out done by the Semester 1 juniors. Some of it were previous artworks of our batch and also our seniors. This paper cutout was done for "Principles of Design" subject.

-Our artworks were hung up by using wires- *genius idea by Ms Lisa xD*

Ideation Crit #1

Dialogue/Narrative

 ENDING

She either gets manipulated by the mastermind and decides to join in the secret cult group or she decides to report this matter to the detectives/police